Friday, August 06, 2010

After a variety of summer reschedulings made the trip to the library take over an hour, three trains, and two metro tickets, I was pleased to discover that the health-food café of all places near the library has a breakfast deal that's a coffee of your choice plus a (butter!) croissant - and a little piece of dark chocolate, which would have been redundant if I'd opted for the pain au chocolat - for the totally acceptable price of 2.20 euros total. Also key, they have wireless, allowing me to reschedule the library appointment I'd already missed. I could see getting lunch at the same place later, if only out of loyalty, but from where I'm sitting I see a wide array of shredded-carrot salads, which I don't think is the stuff to sustain research till closing time at 8pm.

Next up, an Illy café with wireless, ample seating, sweetened iced blended coffee which I will only imagine rivals that of Tel Aviv, and which (crucial because of the train issues) is probably only a 45-minute walk from the apartment.

3 comments:

Enamored of your beauty and charm
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Between reading your coffee discovery today and finding that pic of you with a demitasse on your NYU site, I think I am in love. You are lovely in more ways than one! Whoever gets to see those eyes over an espresso is super lucky.

BTW, I found this, and subsequently your other blogs, via Andrew Sullivan, as I am a lazy somewhat old-school internet user. Your blog is fun and idiosyncratic and I've enjoyed your thoughts. Do keep sharing!

That doesn't look good. I traveled quite a bit by train in Germany last summer and don't remember any problems. I can't say I'm all that "thankful," though, because when the metro doesn't run to my apt here, getting to and from the library becomes a research project (not to mention involved exercise routine) of its own.

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